yet another "carpet" thread

[George P.]

i hate talking about carpets in rentals. it gets my blood boiling. i hate shopping for carpet. It's like buying a mattress - if you dont know anything about it, you are getting screwed over. i hate dealing with tenants about the carpet during their move out process....

installed a new carpet last year. now they are moving out and the carpet is stained (not spills, but like they never took their shoes off). most likely it was a cheap carpet, but what do i know?

i want to charge them $100 to clean it and they think it's "normal wear and tear". what's so normal about having the carpet dark in the areas where furniture was not present?

i do NOT get tenants.... how can they have splatters and fingerprints on the walls? i lived in apts before. never did i touch the wall with nasty fingers while putting my shoes. they know they have to leave it the way they found it. of course they would not install a new carpet, but at least take care of the brand new stuff i gave you!!

and those are college graduates with masters (graduated years ago) that make over 150k per year.

what do you do with "normal wear and tear". i am tired of spending 1k for carpet every time a tenant moves out.